October 18, 1873

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Features

Hill Side Railway

Patent Planing Machine Litigation

The Panic Over

The Fireless Locomotive

Puddle Walls

Manufacture of Artificial Butter in New York

The Fair of the American Institute

The Art Of Inventing - October 18, 1873

Scientific and Practical Information - October 18, 1873

Improved Animal Trap

Improved Car Brake

A New Deep Sea Sounding Instrutment

The Fossil Man of Mentone

The Fecundation of Flowers by Insects

Up the Amazons

No. 2

Note on an Electro-Dynamic Experiment

By MM. Gaston Plante and ALF. Maudet-Breguet

Letter from United States Commissioner Professor R. H. Thurston

Number 14

Recent American and Foreign Patents - October 18, 1873

Answers to Correspondents

Communications Received

Departments

Departments

Notes and Queries - October 18, 1873

Business and Personal - October 18, 1873

Index of Inventions - October 18, 1873

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